{"id":5696,"date":"2010-06-07T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:13:27","slug":"from-right-to-die-to-involuntary-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/06\/from-right-to-die-to-involuntary-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"From right-to-die to involuntary euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Pass right-to-die legislation, allowing patients to choose physician-assisted-suicide, and what do you get?\u00a0 In Belgium, at least, doctors are killing almost as many patients who do not ask to die as those who do.\u00a0 See Wesley J. Smith,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/06\/05\/almost-as-many-non-voluntary-euthanasia-deaths-in-belgium-as-voluntary\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Almost as Many Non Voluntary Euthanasia Deaths in Belgium as Voluntary \u00bb First Thoughts | A First Things Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass right-to-die legislation, allowing patients to choose physician-assisted-suicide, and what do you get?\u00a0 In Belgium, at least, doctors are killing almost as many patients who do not ask to die as those who do.\u00a0 See Wesley J. 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